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Jul 2026
Development and validation of a routine blood test-based model to predict in-hospital postoperative pulmonary infection in older patients with hip fracture.
The hematology-based XGBoost model was developed to predict in-hospital PPI in older adults following hip fracture surgery and demonstrated good discriminative performance and interpretability, suggesting its potential utility as a supplementary tool for cost-effective perioperative risk stratification.
Zhen Xu, Jinyu Liu, Fei Chen et al.
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